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Original article

• Physiological and radiological characterisation of patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary care (1 August, 2000)

  C O'Brien, P J Guest, S L Hill, R A Stockley
• Capsaicin responsiveness and cough in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (1 August, 2000)

  M J Doherty, R Mister, M G Pearson, P M A Calverley
• Systemic effects of formoterol and salmeterol: a dose-response comparison in healthy subjects (1 August, 2000)

  A R Guhan, S Cooper, J Oborne, S Lewis, J Bennett, A E Tattersfield
• Declining incidence of episodes of asthma: a study of trends in new episodes presenting to general practitioners in the period 1989–98 (1 August, 2000)

  D M Fleming, R Sunderland, K W Cross, A M Ross
• Comparison of the seasonal patterns of asthma identified in general practitioner episodes, hospital admissions, and deaths (1 August, 2000)

  D M Fleming, K W Cross, R Sunderland, A M Ross
• Epidemiology of pneumothorax in England (1 August, 2000)

  Dheeraj Gupta, Anna Hansell, Tom Nichols, Trinh Duong, Jon G Ayres, David Strachan
• Attitudes to fertility issues among adults with cystic fibrosis in Scotland (1 August, 2000)

  A Fair, K Griffiths, L M Osman
• Distinct effects of Broncho-Vaxom (OM-85 BV) on gp130 binding cytokines (1 August, 2000)

  M Roth, L H Block
• A hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia family with pulmonary involvement is unlinked to the known HHT genes,endoglin and ALK-1

  (1 August, 2000)

  G M F Wallace, C L Shovlin